In 2015 The Heritage Lottery Fund finally approved the project to lift, clean, repair and display eight of our best medieval stones in the graveyard. They stand between the church and the war memorial . There is a leaflet beside the display and below is the detailed...
Striking (Early Medieval) Gold on the Hebridean Isle of Lismore! Summary Six years of community archaeology on Lismore organised by the Lismore Historical Society, have uncovered a stone building of the 7th-10thC AD monastic site founded by St Moluag, and a workshop...
If we are going to understand what was going on in the Lismore glebe over a thousand years ago, we need post-excavation analysis of many unique finds. In some ways, the actual digging is the easy and exciting bit of archaeology but, when you discover unique finds,...
Help us to reveal what life at the Lismore monastery was like Fourteen Hundred years ago The Historical Society on Lismore needs financial support for the analysis and conservation of the 1500 valuable finds which its team of volunteers have rescued from a newly...
An exciting addition to the Museum in 2023 season is the newly displayed fragments from the Lismore High Cross. These have been in the museum for some years but this year they are a feature, thanks to Douglas Breingan who has erected a stand and cleverly lit them. In...
A new walk from Walk Lismore celebrates St Moluag who arrived on Lismore from Ireland, in 562 AD as one of the proselytising workers of the early Christian church. It is said he travelled with his twelve apostles and set up a monastic community known as a muinntireas....
The Story so far (June 2022) It seemed very unlikely to us that the wet rushy Glebe Field below the church on Lismore would have held clues to the past, but community archaeological work led by Dr Clare Ellis of Argyll Archaeology since 2015 has revealed that the area...
Yesterday Clare Ellis decided that the team had exhausted the possibilities of the existing trench, although it is likely that a major project to strip the surrounding area would reveal many more artefacts and activities. It is also likely that there are layers of...
Lashing rain and brilliant sunshine, but the diggers battled on, undaunted even when they were deprived of their afternoon hot drink by a power cut at the manse Here are some of the pieces of clay mould used by the metal workers. A rare finding of a fragment of glass...
In spite of the continued battle with rain and mud, each day has been a success – with today the most remarkable so far. Early in the work in the east end of the trench, after a very wet start, two more almost intact crucibles emerged from the peaty mud. Clare emailed...
A couple of very rough sketches to explain the Iron Age roundhouse: Three weeks can be a long time in archaeology. Here is the east end of the trench on 4 May and on 24th May With very careful trowel work by the team, expanded by the arrival of Carly today, the east...
A (nearly) dry day at last, allowing the team to clear the “funnelled” entrance to the roundhouse, and explore the internal structures. Arguing from roundhouses elsewhere, the Lismore house would have had a low circular/oval drystone wall, possibly topped with...